The grandmother of a boy who was beaten to death at a group home said she believes the teen would have survived if he received medical attention sooner.

Anthony Parker had been living at the One Way Farm group home for teenagers when he was beaten by another resident. He went to bed without receiving medical treatment, but he was rushed to Children's Hospital later that night when he was found unresponsive on the floor of his room.

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"The clot was so large and already causing so much damage, they have him out of CAT scan and into surgery in a matter of 10 minutes," said Anita Smith, who was legal guardian of her grandson. "They told me after the surgery that he was never going to wake up again."

The 16-year-old Parker later died, and 17-year-old Lance Tiernan was charged as an adult with murder.

"Lance Tiernan picked him bodily up, tipped him upside down and drove his head onto a thinly padded carpeted concrete floor," said Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser.

Smith said she's learned more about the circumstances of her grandson's death in the intervening weeks.

"I don't so much feel like they failed me, but they failed Anthony," she said.

Smith said group home staffers waited hours to call for help because her grandson didn't immediately appear to be hurt, but she said doctors told her he didn't have to die.

"If he had gotten there three hours earlier, when the incident first happened, we might've had a completely different outcome," Smith said.

Smith has hired attorney Eric Deters, who plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the group home.

"It's not criminal on behalf of One Way Farm, just a terrible mistake that was made, terrible mistake made," Deters said. "If he would've went straight to Children's Hospital, Anthony would be alive, Lance wouldn't be where he is, so they failed both these boys."